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OTTAWA — Ontario Progressive Conservatives say the province will be heading to the polls no later than May because any spring budget by the Liberals will be defeated. Appearing with party leader Tim Hudak in Ottawa Wednesday, Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod and Ottawa West-Nepean candidate Randall Denley said the Liberals have overstayed their welcome and the time has come for Ontarians choose a new government.

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan started a speech to the local Chamber of Commerce on Friday by claiming it was entirely off-the-cuff and from the heart, and therefore his media handler would be panicking.
As if. What followed was a note …

TORONTO - One of Ontario's opposition leaders says there is still time to reach a compromise on the provincial budget and avoid the prospect of an election, but her plea appeared to have little effect on the governing Liberals.

Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak spent Thursday defending himself against allegations his campaign staged a news conference with stand-ins for a concerned parent group to support his promise to make the province’s sex offender registry public.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- Research into wind turbine technology is too far advanced and critical to the future of renewable energy sources to be derailed by political decisions, according to a pair of industrial and academic experts.

TORONTO -- Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak’s pledge to reverse the McGuinty government’s key green energy policy if his party wins the October election could mean the death of a burgeoning new industrial sector in Windsor, renewable energy companies said Tuesday.

We talk to Cape Breton-born fiddler Natalie MacMaster about life with her husband Donnell Leahy and their six children — who will be sharing the stage when the couple headlines the Kingsville Folk Music Festival.